Implementing a community-supported school-based influenza immunization program
| Autor: | Patricia Hughes, Jean Munden, Jim Stringfellow, Dallas R McKay, Paul D. Myers, J. Glenn Morris, Parker A. Small, Kathleen A. Ryan, Cuc H. Tran, Jackie Johnson, Randell Doty, Joan B. Castleman, Rosalee A Holmes, Josephine McElrath |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Program evaluation
Health (social science) Adolescent Influenza vaccine education Management Monitoring Policy and Law Vaccines Attenuated Mass Vaccination Influenza immunization Influenza Human Medicine Humans Child School Health Services Medical education business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Plan Implementation Infant General Medicine Vaccination Immunization Influenza Vaccines Child Preschool Immunology Florida School based business School system Health department Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Biosecurity and bioterrorism : biodefense strategy, practice, and science. 8(4) |
| ISSN: | 1557-850X |
| Popis: | School-based influenza immunization programs are increasingly recognized as a key component of community-based efforts to control annual influenza epidemics. Computer modeling suggests that immunizing 70% of schoolchildren could protect an entire community from the flu. Most of the school-based influenza immunization programs described in the literature have had support from industry or federal grants. This article describes a program that used only community resources to administer live, attenuated influenza vaccine supplied by the state health department. Beginning in 2006, the Alachua County Health Department and school system, working in collaboration with the University of Florida, began exploration of a non-mandatory community-wide school-based influenza immunization program, with the goal of achieving high levels of immunization of the ~22,000 public and private pre-K through grade 8 students in the county. In 2009-10 the program was repeated. This report describes the procedures developed to achieve the goal, the barriers that were encountered, and solutions to problems that occurred during the implementation of the program. Preliminary data suggest that the crude immunization rate in the schools was approximately 55% and that at least 10% more students were immunized by their health providers. At an operational level, it is possible to achieve high immunization rates if the stakeholders share a common vision and there is extensive community involvement. |
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